Figures – Models – Schemata.

Ancient Foundations of Picture Act and Embodiment

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The intensive discussion on the vital forces of images and the related questions about the body and the embodied action are deeply grounded in Greek antiquity – a foundation barely recognized in today’s debate. With the two-days conference “Figures – Models – Schemata. Ancient Foundations of Picture Act and Embodiment”, the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment/Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bildakt und Verkoerperung, Humboldt-University Berlin (KBV) tries to disclose the hidden potential of antique artifacts and textual sources. The first section will give an introduction to general problems of embodied action, which finds its expression and enduring materialization in schemata. A second section tries to demonstrate the effects of the body and the model as fundamental parameter in the production of knowledge. Section three will situate those parameters in their effects as well as in their transformations through time.